Case Study: Maps of the Past achieves scalable growth and faster product imports with Miva

Maps of the Past - Customer Case Study

Maps of the Past is a leading online retailer of historical map reproductions serving collectors, universities, libraries, and museums. After growing from a few hundred to thousands of SKUs, the company found its legacy ShopSite platform couldn’t scale — product imports were slow and manual, developer support was scarce, and site performance and customer-facing features suffered as the catalog expanded.

Maps of the Past migrated to Miva (a 10-week conversion) and built custom modules to enable massive batch imports and new features like a Google Maps–based Visual Search. The move delivered faster product onboarding, improved SEO and checkout communication, stronger security, and responsive developer and platform support — positioning the business for continued catalog growth and increased sales.

Maps of the Past

Ric Glaubinger

Owner